Video Transcript for: Tumbling Blocks (Page 2)

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Once you have your layout started, then you can continue and we wanted to make this look random with just three block combinations, which is a neat design to do, we can start with a pattern of blue, orange and then brown and then the row above it is the same thing but it is shifted over. And after brown in blue again, and then the row above that will be this row. And you can see how this is going to look like a random design with just three different color combinations. We’re going to then pick up our pieces, once we’ve decided on our layout and we’ll sew them together in rows. As you start to sew these pieces together, we are going to be flipping this piece down here and we need to adjust it so we have the ears sticking out and those need to fit your seem allowance.

The thing that I’ve found is to trim, off these ears ahead of time with my Corner Cut which has three different sizes of corners that you can trim off, either a scant, a true or a generous corner, and you line up both edges of the tool and trip off what is sticking out, and then when I go to sew, things line up exactly and end up like this. So you can either have ears sticking out or no ears at all, it’s optional but I defiantly like the speed of the sewing machine. So here I have a strip I’ve sewn together, and pressing instructions are given in the book so that all of the seams oppose and the points are going to come together very easily, you’ll sew strips together in pairs, and those pairs together and then your tumbling blocks are coming together finally. The points come together very easily because of the pressing and also because we have bias, bias makes the points match very easily all the way down and I give instructions on how to cut shapes that will fill in the edges, these are not set in, there is a seam, though here just like we have a seam at the top, so everything is sewn in strips. That’s how easy the tumbling blocks are.

So lets look at downtown of the inner city, and with that Y shape we are going to need to make four different combinations here and then two wide strips. We are going to cut the exact same shape. We have a light with two mediums, medium with two lights, dark with two lights, light with two darks, and then a wide of the dark and the medium. And lets look at the shapes we are going to be cutting from this. So here are the shapes that we cut. These were four from the pieced strips and then these are from the two wide strips and lets just see how the wide shape comes together. We are going to turn this one around and match this one up here. We are going to turn this one around and match this one here and then these two shapes go down below. That’s the Y shape to make the downtown of the inner city. We are going to be able to lay these pieces out and we will then pick them up and sew them in rows just like we did on tumbling blocks. That’s how easy this one is. In the book, we include lots of tips that make it so you can be successful with your tumbling blocks. With value choices we want you to be confident in what you’ve chosen. Also, we include rotary cutting basics all the way to the binding.

If you’ve always wanted to make tumbling blocks, this is the way to do it. It’s as easy as ABC. Look for ABC 3D Tumbling Blocks and More at your favorite quilt shop or visit us online at quiltwithmarcibaker.com. Thank you for joining me at Quilt with Marci Baker where you learned the simplest methods that can guarantee you success with your projects. Thank you for joining me and enjoy your quilting.